Show SWIFTER THAN THE PIGEON swallow easily outdistances distances Out companions in flight between corn plagne and antwerp A citizen of antwerp has put to 0 o a test the celerity and homing instinct of the swallow as compared with pigeons a london correspondent of the new york sun says bays ile he caught a swallow in its ita nest under his roof at antwerp mado made a red mark on its feathers and sent the bird with a consignment sign ment of carrier pigeons by train to in northern prance a distance of miles th the birds were released there simultaneously at 7 15 the next morning the swallow without the slightest hesitation made for the north and dis nied stared like a flash the pigeons ll geons clr piled laboriously laborious li around before decia ing direction they should take the swallow reached its nest in kAn antwerp twerp in 67 minutes while the pigeons took four hours and seven Ini minutes to cover the distance in other words the messenger of spring flow few at the nearly miles an hour while the speed of the pl georia ofis only slightly exceeded 35 miles an hour |